What features would you like to see on Buxr?

OK, as most of you can see, we are constantly adding new features and functionality to Buxr. Most of the features come from late night brainstorming with Yan and some of the comments we see in the deal postings.

Now that we have a forum for this, I would love to hear some of your ideas! Any suggestions would be great appreciated.

I hate to say this, but sometimes I wish we had a comment filter that we could switch on, like what you see in chat rooms. This way if you wanted to ignore somebody you could. Sometime members get a little upset (Its bound to happen.), and I'd like to be able to switch them off for a day or two until they cool back down to normal. The bad vibes can really ruin the fun for that day sometimes.

I would like to see the time limit expanded by 30sec for grammar and spelling reasons, but allowing posts to be continually edited could allow a user to go back and change something they said previously that had effects.

You could end up with a scenario with "I never said that.", and then the user goes back to edit that comment to make it appear that way.

I would love to have a way to filter deals by price. I use Buxr for opportunistic bargain shopping, as probably many do, and those 50" LCD TV deals just add unnecessary noise - stuff I have to skim through

I would have to say no for the exact reasoning that TheBest mentioned. Although right now I don't think its happening other than perhaps with refereed people, and only then on rare occasion. However, I think that might open the door to the possibly of it occurring on a larger more frequent scale.

However, once the site become more popular and there are many more people voting and participating, then I would be far more inclined to accept the idea, simply because sheer numbers could overrule any colluding between members.

You could try submitting more often then. I think what the mods are trying to get at is that this is a shopping site, and not a "who has the most" friends site. We have Facebook and MySpace in existence for that. Although, at the same time I think they want people to still have the ability to gain something for spreading the word. Additionally, they have stated themselves that the "Refer a Friend Contest" has not gone over as well as they hoped, even when the requirements were lower and the incentive was higher. Anyway, that is my take on the whole thing.

True - the friends contest is secondary. While we think it is VERY critical to bring more members on board to balance out our contests, the "best deal" contest is still more important to us since this is a deals site after all.

False - I hope Buxr old-timers have learned by now that if we say it we mean it. If Bionicle won the friends contest "fair and square" he would have got the price no question asked. We take attempts to game our contest VERY seriously and will ban anyone we find doing so.

I just wanted to add that when in doubt, we usually give the member the benefit of the doubt.

Also to echo what Solstice said, we are happy to give away prizes, but ultimately we are trying to build a real shopping community here. I know it's easy to confuse the purpose of this site (sometimes even Yan and I get carried away with contest), but it's all about sharing hot deals and making friends.

1. In addition to product, coupon and sale, there should be a rebate choice. It gets tricky when there is an original price, sale price, and price after rebate vs. no sale price (which must be lower than the original price) and then price after rebate.

2. The next to last page in the deal submission process should leave in “use coupon code” so we don’t have to retype it every time when entering a coupon code. Maybe a dropdown?

3. There is a need for more deal categories and “tags” and/or the ability to add more than a limited number to each deal.

The Christmas is more than a tag under 'Entertainment' or other section. It can go across all sections. Please use the Seasonal drop down list. Soon I will ad a menu item to browse deals by the holiday and there will be an easy way to see Christmas (or other seasonal deals) separately of the rest

I'm going to disagree with that idea personally, as it already takes time enough wading though 8 pages of items as is, and as the site grows that amount will be growing by itself without adding an extra day onto the time limit.

Could you make it so that every holiday (Including "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday") are double the prize on all of the daily deals? So instead of winning $10 for the deal of the day, you win twenty. It would also draw more people here to do their holiday shopping and submissions.

Oh, one more thing, can you make a separate contest for people who's ranks are "journeyman" or lower? like $50 for first place, $30 for second, and $20 for third. Then you could have an "expert" or higher contest. Some of the older members (Solstice, TheBest, steve_05 and others) are just way too good at finding deals for the lower ranked people (like me) to be able compete with them!

I'm in Search of LETTER "H" in Stores TAB for a long time .
There are so many stores starting with H
But i m not able to find The Letter and the Stores like HOME DEPOT, HP,Home decor, Hobby Lobby, Hardees,Hertz, Hallmark,... List goes on..

How about adding additional links to our posts? I just posted 2 coupons for sports authority because they were seperate links. I would've rather had them on the same page.
In addition to our regular post maybe there could be a spot where we could add some extra info. Another example DSW, I have posted a coupon/sale for this store but I also had to mention the FREE membership link. Could it be where the regular link takes them to their site and a seperate link to the membership part?

I see what you mean. I could probably add arrows (left/right) to scroll through all the images we were able to pars out. How badly you guys need this as this comes with some significant effort on possibly slower page load time...

We have had newcomers recently win the prize so I don't think it's an issue. The idea of the monthly constant was to reward continuous participation. So the people you see win every month are the ones who are contributing the most to the site.

In the "Customize the view" options can we add an option to "Hide/Show my deals"? That would make the list smaller for those who post a lot of deals thereby making it easier to go through other deals and post votes/comments.

We need some type of duplicate deal rule. Meaning, the various Express coupons that have diff codes but same discount, same exp date. Can't we just add the new coupon to the previous deal posted? I feel like it takes away from other deals.

I didn't read this yesterday but steve has a good point. I know that dupes apply only to those with the same link, same terms, same upc etc. but like steve points out if it has a different coupon code but the same discount it's not a dupe.

I agree that we should be able to include any deal we find in the original and that any others should be considered a dupe within a 24 hr period irregardless of the code or the site it came from.

I have to agree that more than 1 submission for any particular store with the same discount but different codes is rather pointless.